SLAVONA, Maria

Maria Slavona (pseudonym of Maria Schorer), German Impressionist painter. She attended the women's art schools of Munich and Berlin. She was a student of Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945).

From 1890 she stayed in Paris and Barbizon several times and she was strongly influenced by contemporary French painting. From 1906 she lived with her family in Lübeck, then from 1909 she was active in Berlin. She joined the Berlin SecessionGLOSSARYThe Berlin Secession was founded by artists in 1898 as an alternative to the conservative exhibition and patronage policies of the art associations and of the state. In 1898, when the official salon jury rejected a landscape painting by Walter Leistikow — a leader of the group of Berlin artists supportive of modernist trends — the group broke away from the Association of Berlin Artists to found the Secession. Throughout Central Europe at the time, artists were forming secessions in order to organize their own exhibitions, establish their own galleries and publications, and nurture a more progressive art public. Among the sixty-five founding members, painter Max Liebermann served as the first president of the Berlin Secession. in 1913.

She married Otto Ackermann (1871-1963), an art dealer of Paris and Berlin.